Rangemaster

Tropos transforms manufacturing approach for Rangemaster

Operating reactively to customer orders, Rangemaster often experienced high costs and low efficiency. Changing this approach by implementing Solarsoft Tropos has optimized capacity and efficiency, while enabling the business to continuously and accurately meet customers’ demands.

Tropos has facilitated an approach focused around generating distribution requirements based on sales forecasts, sales from stock and only a small number of made-to-order items. "Our overdue orders are significantly lower than they were," Mike Bufton, Financial Director explains. "We are also able to offer customers a lot of products on much shorter lead times, typically reducing them from three weeks down to seven working days. At the same time, we have been able to reduce the stock we hold by ten percent."

Bufton continues, "There is increased awareness among our existing customers that our service levels have improved and we will be able to use that as a selling point to new customers. And because Leisure has become less reactive in its manufacturing activities, we have been able to realize benefits in other areas because people aren't doing so much firefighting."